Ideas for promotional package

Feautres may include:-

- Alice in a Gas mask.
- Alice holding a weapon.
- White Rabbits pocket watch.
- 'Drink me' bottle.
- Playing cards.
- Small door.
- The idea of confined spaces.
- Chequered floor.
- The Rabbit hole.
- Tea party.
- Woods.
- The idea of another world and the fact it is a learning curve for Alice, similar to that to Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.
- The idea that Wonderland and Alice's experience in Wonderland is a test of character and the imagination and also the question of whether Wonderland in a figment of Alice's imagination. Is it really Alice that is the crazy one?


Characters:-

- Alice and her jounrey through wonderland.
- White Rabbit and his emphasise on time.
- The Mad Hatter and the idea that like Alice, he is not what he seems.
- The Caterpillar and his fantasies.
- Tweedle dum and Tweedle Dee and the idea there is two sides to a personality.
- Chesire Cat, the figure of guidance - nuisance to Alice's journey?

Banksy - Police officer inspects Dorothy.

This picture of a police officer inspecting Dorothys basket is easy to relate to our planned interpreation of Alice. The Wizard of Oz is another famous fantasy tale, that seems so farfetched from reality. This brings us to our first point; it shows a mix of seemingly innocent fantasy being combined with a more brutal figure of the real world, that usually deals with the seedy underbelly of society. The fact that he is inspecting her basket, implies the idea of a lack of trust, even in the most unexpected of people. This blends in with our ideas of how we want to inspect and take apart the themes from Alice in Wonderland to uncover the true forms behind the symbolism.

From our point of view this image is either portraying the police officer as mistakingly innterogative towards a misdirected persona, or that he is rightfully suspicious of Dorothy, implying she is scheming and vindictive in the same way as we want our alternate version of Alice to be.

Banksy - 'Gas mask girl'

I feel this picture relates quite a lot to how we want our portrayal of Alice to be. Banksy has a way of twisting things to make quite a statemtent; I am unsure of what this picture is actually suggesting, however, we feel it is highlighting the idea of government repression and living in a society that is poisened by authority. We feel this is a good starting point as to how we want our Alice to be viewed; we feel the gas mask contradicts Alice's innocence, and the fact we are unable to see her face adds to the sense of mystery and idea that we do not know the real Alice.

Research - Alice in Wonderland

In terms of costume, Alice is typically shown wearing a pale blue dress, a pristine white pinafore and a large black bow in her long, blonde hair. She is he seen as a figure of innocence throughout all the different adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, however, having discussed it, we plan to exploit this vulnerbale image and twist it into something quite surreal, to an almost malicious, scheming Alice.

"The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity"
"It is considered to be one of the best examples of literary nonsense"

In our promotional package, we want the themes to be obvious and we want to capture some of the 'nonsense', however, we feel that our mark needs to be on it; we need it to be original and somewhat relevant to the dub step/ rock genre.

Although we do not intend to copy the characters and themes from Alice in Wonderland, we feel we need to capture the essence of it through our own input. An example to look at would be that of the recent film 'Malice in Wonderland', which is inspired by the original Alice in Wonderland. They have adopted the personalities of the various original characters, yet put them in different forms; for example, the White Rabbit is a man and the Queen of Hearts is a strip club owner.

Chase & Status CD cover analysis.

I feel this album cover sums up quite a lot about Chase and Status, the dubstep duo. Its got quite a classic feel to it, with the black and white photo of two children kissing. I can imagine it being a CD that would of perhaps come about in the 1960's/1970's. The yellow block capitaling is nothing fancy, it just tells the listener who the album is by, without ruining the photo behind. Dubstep is not the most well-known genre, it can be quite surreal and random, and this album cover I believe really reflects this. Chase and Status, in the world of dubstep are somewhat a legend so they don't need to use lots of appealing imagery on their albums; this album cover speaks for itself.

Final plan for this term.

7 weeks (this term)
Digipack and Poster finished:-

Week 1
Thursday 6th Jan - Thursday 13th Jan

All the research (for overall theme)completed.

Research must include:

- Dub step (CD covers etc.).
- Research into Banksy and his art (to develop the visual aspects of surrealism for the designs of our digipack and poster).
- Research into appropriate characters and themes from Alice in Wonderland.

As well as this, the digipack ideas and plan written down on blog, ready to begin the rough draft.

Week 2
Thursday 13th Jan - Thursday 20th Jan

Begin rough draft of digipack.
- Sketch ideas.
- Draw it out roughly and scan it up.
- Gather any ideas (maybe in a mood board).

Week 3
Thursday 20th Jan - Thursday 27th Jan

Finish rough design of digipack and critically evaluate it, describing how we may move forward with it.

Also, begin final design of digipack.

Week 4 to 6
Thursday 27th Jan - Thursday 17th Feb

Create the final design for digipack and scan it onto blog.

Week 7
Thursday 17th Feb - Thursday 24th feb

Poster finished (this will be heavily based on the digipack, and most of its imagery will be therefore be extracted from it)and then scanned onto blog along with a brief analysis including the progress made and what we intend to carry through into our music video, which will begin being planned in the new term.